Chinese symbol for “illegitimate”
非婚生
fēi hūn shēng
born out of wedlock; illegitimate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for illegitimate is 非婚生 (fēi hūn shēng), defined as: born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 非婚生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 非常 | fēi cháng | very; really; unusual; extraordinary |
| 非法 | fēi fǎ | illegal |
| 并非 (並非) | bìng fēi | really isn't |
| 除非 | chú fēi | only if (..., or otherwise, ...); only when |
| 是非 | shì fēi | right and wrong; quarrel; dispute |
| 无非 (無非) | wú fēi | only; nothing else |
| 结婚 (結婚) | jié hūn | to marry; to get married |
| 婚姻 | hūn yīn | marriage; matrimony; 桩 (zhuāng),次 (cì) |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
See also: Japanese symbol for “illegitimate”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.